I woke up late in the morning, my brain banging against my head, and looked around a room I couldn’t recognize. Dark bar, hazy car ride, strange apartment—these things came back slowly. She was sitting on a plush red chair on the other side of the room under a very large window. Reclined in a […]

I had been driving up and down empty roads for two hours and thought I’d head back to the station. As Nick Cave says, “This is a mistake I sometimes make.” I walk into the harshly lit lobby with its dull yellow walls and walk up to the desk. “What’s going on, Riley?” Marion asks […]

“I thought we’d show that friendship could be stronger than the crossroads devil” –Dar Williams The sun was resting above us in the harsh sky. Translucent waves of air rose from the baked road stretched out before us. I had all four windows and the sunroof open, music was blaring from the car speakers mixing […]

My Mother was born and raised in this town and tomorrow she will be buried here. When she turned eighteen she left Rios with some drifter named Sid and wasn’t heard from for years. When she finally did come back home she was crawling back to her parents’ place with no money, no husband, and […]

From the Associated Press: Mitrovica, Kosovo–Ten people have been killed in three days of riots that erupted after two ethnic Albanian boys were found dead in the freezing Ibar River which separates this bitter, ethnically divided city. French peacekeepers patrolling Mitrovica have asked for help and KFOR, the NATO mission in Kosovo, is responding. German […]

(I) My wife and I had gone out to her favorite restaurant to celebrate her 28th birthday. It was a restaurant decorated with every sort of novelty item from movie posters to farm tools. The place felt more like a strange museum of urban legends than a restaurant. A waiter dressed in blue jeans and […]

Violent wind and rain tears clinging leaves from the trees and lightening dances hypnotically. Rain is coming down sideways in beautiful sheets beating against the windows. It’s the end of fall. You stand at your window watching this. The power of mother nature captivating you there and you think of nature’s power and how it […]